Historical Marker
Site of Fort Boggy
Centerville, Leon County · Texas
Erected 1936
The fort's captain has three accounts of his death. Thomas N. B. Greer was born in Tennessee in 1806, came to Texas in 1835 and, the Handbook says, manned one of the Twin Sisters at San Jacinto. President Lamar commissioned him on February 22, 1840, to raise the Boggy and Trinity Rangers. The Handbook puts his death in action on the Trinity near Alabama, in Houston County, in June 1842. The county entry ties it to an 1841 retaliatory raid, and the 1985 plaque to a scouting party in 1841.
What the plaque says
Site of Fort Boggy Here a blockhouse was constructed in 1840 as headquarters for the Boggy and Trinity Rangers commanded by Captain Thomas N. B. Greer. A community retained the name Fort Boggy for a number of years.
Where it stands
31.19391, -95.98300 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Fort Boggy State Park — 0.4 miA 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.
More markers nearby
- Fort Boggy — 0.7 mi
- Site of the First Court House Built in Leon County — 2.8 mi
- Wm. B. Middleton — 3.1 mi
- Concord Missionary Baptist Church — 10 mi